Pasquier Quesnel Quotes

The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

People can call me what they like - fat, ugly, sour - but tell me I'm not fair, tell me I'm not ethical, those are the things that bother me.

God knows I'm a good guy, I'm known in the industry as a good guy. I'm not known to be a foul, evil dude that you've got to watch out for and my name is not muddy in the industry.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.

One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

I'd like to be known for my character.

What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.

The just man walks in his integrity

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth

This is a smear on the image that Thurmond has as a person of high integrity.

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

As long as I can look my family in the face every day, and they know what type of person I am, I'm cool.